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The greatest disservice that fashion does is carelessly to turn life's most precious and fragile assets into marketable products of transient worth. If a great, dark locust cloud of fashion settles upon our world, upon our dreams of quality, upon our humble individualities, we must fear that its passing will leave behind a ravaged field of empty gestures. 12.29.81

Reflections on Fashion 1970-1981 by Kennedy Fraser

Beatrice by Arthur Snitzler p. 77-78

You see, we who were born old - during our lives we let one mask after another fall from us, until, at the age of eighty or there-abouts, sometimes sooner, we show our real faces to the world. The others, the youthful ones - (and such a one was Ferdinand... ) they always remain young, remain children, and therefore are obliged to put on one mask

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after another if they do not wish to astonish other people too much. Perhaps these masks come of themselves over their faces, and they do not know that they wear them, and only have a strange dark feeling that something does not fit in their lives - because they always feel young.

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Roman Polanski by Riernan p. 128-129: quote of Jerry Hosinski

"A man makes himself like a piece of film - all slick images and surface feelings. When you see film projected against a screen, what you really see are one-dimensional images flickering on a barrier, which is what the screen is. Without the barrier, which is put up to intercept the beam of light through which the film is projected, the beam of light would extend into infinity and images would never be seen. So - the barrier, the screen, is absolutely essential for the film to be seen.

... (Roman) made of his personality and